04-24-2020, 09:43 AM
In-laws own close to 4000 acres, and rent the balance. They grow a variety of crops - wheat, oats, barley, canola, legumes etc. Even though they run a pretty fair sized operation, there are a few far larger operations. There is a farm about 100km from where I live, when you drive by their property it looks more like a dealership than personal operation. Like 6-8 each of huge tractors, combines, high clearance sprayers, long row of semi tractors and grain haul trailers. I don't know how much land they seed, but would be in the 10s of thousands of acres.
Now I have never been in any of the grainbelt states, but something many people don't realize about Saskatchewan is it is only the southern half of the province that is "mostly" farmland. Once you get about 50km north of Prince Albert (where I live), it becomes nothing but lakes and forest. It is where I was born, and is the only city here I would live. I couldn't handle the prairies. We own a log cabin on a remote lake 4 hours north. Only 3 cabins on the lake, it's common to go days without saying another human.
Now I have never been in any of the grainbelt states, but something many people don't realize about Saskatchewan is it is only the southern half of the province that is "mostly" farmland. Once you get about 50km north of Prince Albert (where I live), it becomes nothing but lakes and forest. It is where I was born, and is the only city here I would live. I couldn't handle the prairies. We own a log cabin on a remote lake 4 hours north. Only 3 cabins on the lake, it's common to go days without saying another human.